"The Taliban’s Islamic Emirate is not the end of the project; rather, it is the start. The vision always has been global," writes @KatieZimmerman. A key point.
Our recent report was clear that the #Taliban and its associated jihadists under the control of #Pakistan's ISI are global in outlook, though Western analysts struggle with this due to ideological assumptions about nation-states eeradicalization.com/afghanistan-re…
#Taliban founder Mullah Omar made clear he did not care about #Afghanistan per se; his "bigger cause" was global in nature, namely bringing down America.

With Russian officials earlier, talibs openly used the same language as #IS about a global caliphate eeradicalization.com/afghanistan-re…

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